rig vey 01, originally uploaded by RightAsRain.

Who said all Neko’s are nice and sweet? This is my new “Evil Neko” outfit I’ve put together for City of Lost Angels. I was out of the city dancing at a Toxic rave.

I’m particularly amused with the beating heart with nails in it on my sleeve.

Thanks to RightAsRain for the photo.

-Veyron

Thank you all for a most excellent year.  It’s been a great ride in Second Life, and I look forward to more fun.  Merry Christmas to all, and to all good night….

Love,

Veyron

I want to address the discussion I have had with a few people already who think that Linden Labs should NOT change the group limit for fear of making Second Life buggier or worse than it already is.   Now, I’m not sure what the problem is, if there is any because Linden Labs is not communicating on the problem.  The premise is that the databases are too messed up to support more than 25 groups and they will not support more than 25 groups.   For example, just last week, they lost (and then recovered) close to half a million inventory items.  Thus supporting the argument that they would have serious problems supporting more than 25 groups.

Now, think carefully about this situation.  I work with programmers all the time on situations like this.  Programmers are by their very nature lazy, it’s how they work.  It’s not necessary a bad thing, but it’s always an underlying current.  Fixing the database problems is going to be a sticky and ugly problem.  Not nearly as much fun as adding more eye candy to the environment.  Never mind that the sticky and ugly database problems are the root of a lot of issues.  Now they don’t even have the excuse of an increasing population and userbase load.

What this means that if the 25 group limit is REALLY a database issue, then confess, make a something called a plan to fix the database and while you are at it, up the group limit.

-Veyron

Here’s some better instructions on how to vote on the bug/feature request.  I’m not sure who to exactly thank for it though….

1. Go to: Issue MISC-208 or https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/MISC-208.
2. In the upper right hand corner it says log in, click this.
3. Type in your full SL name, first_name last_name. (I would put in cherlindrea lamont.) Enter your password. (This is a SL run site so your password is safe.) Click Login.
4. You should now be back at the original page listed above: Issue MISC-208 or https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/MISC-208
5. On the left side bar, find the option that says Voting. Under that tab it says Vote for It.
6. You have now helped many people by helping move this issue closer to the attention of the Lindens.
7. Share these steps with your friends.

Woohoo!  Now you’ve done your good deed for the day, maybe week. 

-Veyron

Well now, Lillie Yifu has tagged me with an interesting meme game.  Here it is:

Name the avatar that you would most like to have sl sex with for…..

1. Their av.

2. Their mind.

3. Their poetic/mystical/creative spirit.

4. Their social success/success in sl.

5. Their libido, that is the thing they seem to want to do from how they talk and act.

6. Want to go against type for you. That is, if they are normally a top, you would want them to be your bottom, if they are straight and your same sl gender…

7. You would go against type for.

8. You would most want to do a nothing-but-sex week with, who you are not currently having sl sex with.

9. Threesome, which two. They don’t have to be from the above list, but can be.

The tenth question:

“The forbidden,” the one that, you’d like to publicly confess to, but the consequences would be toooooo awful. Examples would be your best friend’s partner, a professional contact, someone you know rl who is here… Someone who you want, but have never been able to confess it too. Don’t post… Just answer with whether they are online right at the moment that you post your answer.

Wow.  This is going to be hard.  Some many beautiful and wonderful people to pick from.  Well, since this is a fantasy list we’ll work from that perspective.  This is harder than I expected….

1. Charissa Korvin
2. Tiessa Montgolfier
3. Seven Eun
4. Zoe Connolly
5. Etain Peregrine
6. Vint Falken…. 
7. Gideon Television - what the heck?
8. I might have to take a pass on this one, because I’m stumped for an answer right now
9. After some consideration, Gideon Television and Mimi Syaka or TheDiva Rockin.  Either one would be sure to be exciting.

The tenth question:

“The forbidden,” the one that, you’d like to publicly confess to, but the consequences would be toooooo awful. Examples would be your best friend’s partner, a professional contact, someone you know rl who is here… Someone who you want, but have never been able to confess it too. Don’t post… Just answer with whether they are online right at the moment that you post your answer.

Well, I was going to put Vint on the list as number ten, mostly because I didn’t want to embarrass her, eh, but what the heck.  I can here that Belgian…  owww…  right now.  :)  ::kiss kiss::

Okay, who to tag, next.   Zoe, Amanda, Dinee, Tiessa, and Wrath.

-Veyron

Okay, let’s give a try to up the limit on the number of Second Life groups you can have.  Everyone knows how annoying it is.  Fellow bloggers.  Repost a similar blog posting to this.  Just how hard can this be to make the number larger?  It was made larger a while back and the Earth did continue to revolve around the Sun.  Here’s the Jira URL for it.  Go there, login with your Second Life account.  Vote for it.  You’re done.  You’ve done your good deed for the day.

Right now there are 386 votes for it.  If we can do what we have done with some of the meme games let’s try to get it to 500 or 1000.

-Veyron

As the grid is down right now, I took a look at the quality metrics for Second Life.  I think this graph, from the Linden’s own web site really says it all.   It really is appalling.  Over 1/5 of all Second Life sessions crash.  Maybe Cory needed to explain these numbers and couldn’t.  Notice how the trend is not really moving downward, sort of sideways.  Also look that this is over a one year time span.  One year to work on things and no substantial quality improvement.  But hey, we did get voice, and now lots of new shiny baubles to look at, um, until it crashes.  I do give Linden Labs kudos for putting up metrics like these and being open about it.

At some point, this graph will be a direct threat to Second Life’s and Linden Lab’s existence, if it is not already.  Philip Linden might think it’s a long road ahead to stability, I think it’s going to be a short road.  The number of active users has started to plateau now and now there is a risk of instability leading to disgust and then people leaving the environment.

Companies invariably do one of two things in general, they get bigger until a bigger fish eats them (or they become the top predator) or they get smaller until they disappear.  The question now is what is going to happen to Linden Labs/Second Life.

-Veyron

First off, L’Oreal  has a new set of free skins and shapes available.  They are four skins with different make-ups and different skin tones.  They are pretty nice, especially for the price.  You can find the skins and shapes in of all places, the Greenies Sim.  You have to wander around a bit to find them, but I’ll give you a clue, look for the women’s handbag…. 

Also, there’s some pretty cool clothing for sale in theme with the sim - in the cupboard.

On a similar note, I’m in an ad for the Greenies clothing as well in Second Style Magazine issue 14….   Thanks to RightasRain for the photo opportunity.

-Veyron

A new sim opened up next to City of Lost Angels. Part of the role playing main sim, except this one has land for sale that residents can buy. So I snapped up a lot before they all sell out. This is the build I put together, a new loft, “The Flesh of the Fallen Angels”. Seems appropriate. I had fun slapping graffiti on the bulding and making it and the grounds look rather beat up. Should be amusing. -Veyron
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I’m changing around the spam comment suppression system.  I’ve taken out the captcha (which for some reason seemed to do nothing to slow them down) and I’ve switched over to Defensio for cutting out the spam comments.  If your comment does not appear it might be a problem with it.  Email or comment to me and I’ll look into it.  So far it seems to be working.

Those guys are going to be the first ones up against the wall when the revolution comes….

-Veyron

Second Style is running a Secret Santa game.  These can be kinda fun.  You never know what you might get.  Anyhow, here are the rules:

• Find a kiosk and touch it to signup yourself (I have one at Le Zoo (136, 26, 22).)
• On December 19 at noon SLT, signups will close and recipients randomly assigned. Each person in the pool will get one recipient to buy a gift for — notification of your recipient’s name will come in the form of an in-world instant message. (If we have an odd number of recipients, I will take two.)
• On or before December 25, buy your recipient a gift, anonymously if possible. Note that OnRez will deliver gifts (even no-transfer items) to your recipient anonymously.
• Please don’t spend more than L$500, but spend at least L$100. You may purchase your recipient more than one gift, if you like as long as the total is less than the maximum.
• On December 26, your recipient will find out her Secret Santa!

You can also get the registration from Celebrity Trollop’s OnRez store online store here for L$0.  Now, what to give, what to give….

-Veyron

Apparently, I’m behind the times on this, but Tiana Meriman is gone, and her blog is gone too. Makes me sad that she left us all. I didn’t talk that much to Tiana, but I did find her an interesting person in more than one way. I’m sorry to see her go. Maybe she’s still around. Her last blog post maybe left a clue.

i guess i’m just not made to be a social person, i dont feel comfortable in the spot light. i feel good in the shadows, i feel good helping from the back scene. i want to go back to my spot of comfort, i want to go back to the shadows.

I can sympathize with how she thought here. But I still sort of miss her. I wish I had more time to spend with interesting avies like Tiana. Peace be with you Tiana.

-Veyron

So with the news that Linden Labs CTO Cory Linden has left the building I have to wonder if things are going to get better or worse.  (As a side note, I personally hate to see people fail or have these sorts of things happen to them.  I do not subscribe to the theory that in order to succeed others must fail.)  I am curious to see how often avies log out of Second Life without crashing.   That means your  Second Life session ended, on your terms, not blowing up on you.  For example, if you log into Second Life for the evening, it crashes 4 times while you’re on and then you log out at the end, that is pretty close to - almost all the time.

Ask your friends to vote in the poll over in the corner and I’ll close out the poll near the end of the month.  Maybe it’s not as bad as I think it is.  Maybe it is.

-Veyron

Nicholaz - “The Mad Patcher” - has fixed not only the asstachment bugs, but the long long desired ability to mute group IM’s.  For example, if you joined the FashionConsolidated group, you joined that to get notices for the fashionistas, not to hear some prattle from some n00b begging for some Lindens.  Now you can mute it as well.

You can get the new client from Nicholaz from his blog.

-Veyron

For asstachments that is….  You know, you teleport or fly around and then all of the sudden, your hair is where it really does not belong.  And then how annoying it is to fix it.  I think once I recall almost every prim object I was wearing was suddenly attached down there.  How annoying.

Well, help is here.  It looks like my hero, Nicholaz, may have solved the asstachment bug.   The irony of this is that it will probably be months before Linden Labs actually puts the fix into the main line code.  Why?  Well, we have to improve on this voice thing and work on some more shiny objects.  (::sigh::  don’t get me started)

Now, what I do see as good things Linden Labs is working on.  Havok 4 and Mono.  Both should improve sim performance and stability.  Both worthy causes.  Neither are shiny baubles like Windlight or voice.  I would really welcome serious forward movement on Havok 4 and Mono.  Havok looks like it’s moving forward in the next few months, but I hope the mono engine gets going.  That will improve script speed substantially, and thus, make the sims faster.

-Veyron